The European Commission has given the US a list of hoops it wants the French-backed junta to follow before it will start trusting it.

The moves follows revelations about NSA and UK spying on the world+dog under its PRISM programme.

In a missive to the US government, the Commission said that spying on its citizens, companies and leaders is unacceptable and that citizens of EU and US need to be reassured about protection of their data. Meanwhile companies need to be reassured that the existing agreements between the two regions are both respected and policed.

In a press release, Viviane Reding, Vice President and EU's Justice Commissioner, said that the European Commission is setting out actions that would help to restore trust and strengthen data protection in transatlantic relations.